All right, because I see people land on this site when looking for Doc Hastings…

“Doc Hastings voting record”…

Well, right now, he’s organizing a team of congress critters to examine the Endangered Species Act.

And which species we might as well knock off the list.

I imagine he’d want to shorten the list as far as he could.

Special note on the congress critters he’s working with here.

Members of the Endangered Species Act Working Group include:

Rep. Doc Hastings, R- Wash.

Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R- Wyo.
Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev.
Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah
Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga.
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md.
Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich.
Rep. James Lankford, R-Okla.
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo.
Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas
Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla.
Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa.

Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif.

Not particularly bi-partisan.

All right.  Now I can slumber on this topic for another month.

I see from my blog’s search terms that …

Orange Lights have hovered over Whidbey Island.

And thus we have this picture of this town yokel pointing into the distance.  Presumably into the direction the orange lights were.

“We’ve seen a lot of stuff, but this was the weirdest thing we’ve ever seen,” said Dick Johnson, a retired civil engineer.

Orange lights!

“The first thing I thought was Area 51 moved to Whidbey Island,” he said.

Wait.

“I know what a helicopter sounds like; thump, thump, thump,” he said. “This was no noise.”

While he’s more inclined to believe the lights were some sort of top-secret military project, as opposed to a flying saucer from outer space, the experience was more than a little startling.

Well.  Okay.

A Whidbey News-Times reporter also visited six different homes around the Johnsons’ house, but none of the neighbors reported seeing anything out of the ordinary that night.

Several did express disappointment, however, at being left out.

“I wish I’d seen it,” Tim Oliver said with a laugh.

A 23-year resident of the community, he also has a great view of the water and often observes marine and air traffic passing through the area. Oliver said he’s never witnessed anything that might fit into the extraterrestrial category, but planned to redouble his vigil following the Johnson’s encounter.

“Now I’m really going to be looking out the window,” he said.

This is, of course, that “X Files in the background ” ‘Could be; could be not” feature story angle of the mainstream liberal media your ufologists are complaining about in terms of how these things get covered.  It gets worse for the Johnsons…

Another neighbor, who asked to be identified only by her first name, was home Saturday evening but said she also missed the excitement.

“That would be cool if it was (a UFO) but I didn’t see anything,” Janice said with a smile.

While being interviewed, another neighbor drove by and Janice eagerly asked if she had seen anything.

The driver replied that she hadn’t but expressed the same excitement over the possibility.

Anyway, those wacky X Files theme song playing in the background tee hee stories bring us back to “Chinese lanterns.”

And we have another photograph of the man here.   His hand is moving to a different location.

“This is not something I was imagining,” Johnson said. “I was sober, I don’t drink, I don’t smoke pot. … I definitely saw what I saw.”

“I’d swear on a stack of Bibles,” he said.

And now everyone who saw something is forming a support group of “No.  We saw something”.

“They looked to me like hot air balloons released just for fun,” Shimek said.

All right.  I’ll keep you posted the next time I see Whidbey Island circulate in search terms.

Just some basic commenting spam that filtered through, interesting so far as it goes, and linking to an at least legitimate in so far as it plugs out content  conspiratorial website — selling Rothschild t-shirts or something.

Leak News: We work for major news companies but our boss is preventing us from publishing this information on Tv. They are high ranking luciferians from the devil worshipers cult illuminati also known as the Bilderberg Group. This is a fact: There is an ongoing civil war in America. The illuminati have killed Aaron Swartz and more than 38,000 people in America in 2010. Their deaths are disguised as suicides. Many Americans are awake now, Americans are buying guns hunting to kill all children of members of the illuminati living in multi-million dollar homes all over America to end their evil legacy. KKK members are luciferians from the illuminati. People listed in the forbes billionaire list are high ranking members of the illuminati. The Bilderberg Group have alot of their children here in America living in multi-million dollar homes. Tell all your friends, it’s now time to KILL them all to save humanity.

CNN is AFRAID to cover this story.

Anyway, the word on the street is that the Bilderberg Meeting this year is all about turning over the keys of World Domination over to google.

The secretive Bilderberg Group is currently undergoing a major transformation that will see it and other high profile networks merge under the banner of Google as the elite accelerates its plan to consolidate its technocratic agenda.

Could be worse.  Could’ve put into the hands of facebook, right?

In other interesting spam comments, and I’ll save this message (though definitely the links.)  It’s… poetry?  And oddly referential to Bilderberg and their designs on things.

Immutable Gods from the sky, strong and domineering, they will all kill town, a fly ash
The shame of ancestors, the ancient Great washed white god king roared.
The other everyone family monks excited, have to cry.
The ancient Great manifest, without beginning the Great was still alive.
Washed humiliation town to kill everything.
Babel stage, a great roar, many people were moved to tears.
Boom
Shining the Gods once again landed repression to the fallen kings the nine Swire Xiongshou, ashes, ancient chariot collapse.
Fallen King of the presence of strong, can only be issued soon unwilling roared, but unable to resist, and that eternal, Huang Jinsheng Guang Town kill everything.
Poof
List of God relentless pressure drop the Swire generation invincible giant Decrepitation, blood is evaporated to dryness, and then reduced to ashes

Body of eight hundred and twentieth chapters Zodiac arrives
King of falling dead
As strong as he has only issued loudly cried out in horror, on the spot in the sky stage exploded, the blood instantly evaporated, to be a fly ash.
Screams continued, another into dust
Gods one, the gods into submission, which is the legend of the year, and now it is flying out of the reckless waste mountain, the town kill KING sweeping.

This is a shocking picture of heaven and earth, there is no force can stop it, trails of ancient kings imminent demise, sage king Bounty, is expected to become even the presence of the Great Sage was also ruthlessly denied.
This is the cry of panic, from the ancient king, if it would have been unthinkable during weekdays, anyone in the world can kill them, but by no means let them fear to such a degree.
However, at this moment, everyone panic, spirit trembling trembling, it is difficult to move
This is the ancient Great atmosphere, can do no wrong in their induction, the mind is no hint of resistance, too strong, very terrible, you want to bow down to go.

Finally, to withstand the ancient kings, his legs felt weak, worship on the spot on the channel table, do not really want to kneel, but a Supreme coercion dictates.
Such a breath sky high, than the wide sea, breadth and depth than the star field, so that they almost despair, there is no trace of the ability to compete.
Oh, how could this be?
Some KING lived long years, and have worship the supreme war fighting Shenghuang of Swire Dynasty, only induced him to breath.

Ancient Great, someone is really dead, they we’re through.

This fear quickly spread, Swire far
ministries all erect, and then the whole body trembling, they also felt a kind of power and influence.

This is what a terrible scene, KING kneeling on the ground, and bowed toward the Road dazzling list of God, think light on the people tremble.

In other news… there are new meetings of the Rich to shout into the bullhorn toward… but, a little curious here… why does Bill Gates have to be referenced as “Mansanto linked”, like he isn’t “linked” to other things?

They’ve been setting it up for a while now — but well, here we go…

THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY IS IN THE HOUSE!

… and comedy gold in the comments section of the Portland Mercury here.   I’m curious about the “Tony Ortega” question.  This the equivalent of  the larouchers shouting “Dennis King!  High Times!”

All right.  So I walked across the block a few times to have a looksee.  I take the trees to be placed all about to stop too much “look seeing” — this has the look to it of a grand production for filming and not really a grand scene in and of itself.  The guy on the stage, in the snippets I heard from him — referenced Saucerful of Secrets and someone working with Donna Ross.  I guess this may be, like, a personal narrative on how the power of Scientology saved him from Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd — (or how psychiatry destroyed Syd Barrett and someone working with Donna Ross)?

It had the feel to it of a rehearsal for a larger crowd expected later, but would have worked as an informal speech to an empty crowd.

On the corner across the street is a man with a cardboard sign.  This is a common spot for “spare change?”, so I imagine the sign might read a variation of “Why Lie?  Need money for Ninja fighting beer” or whatever the current cleverness is right now.  But nope.  The sign reads something… relevant?

Fluoridation?  … No?
Scientology? … Yes?
What about Benghazi?

No, I don’t know what it means either.
And he’s having a conversation with someone, a bit irate over things.  The sign seems a bit too cryptic for any real passion on it, but to each their own.  From what I can tell from the back of the sign, which I see has something about the Fight against Ignorance, it might be actually pro-fluoride and anti-Scientology, or something about looking to actual real issues as opposed to Fluoride and Scientology.  (Where this lands him on the issue of Benghazi I do not know.)  Anyway, he appeared to say to the man arguing with him that he was stuck in 6th Grade logic — and I just moseyed on away.  And past the camera crew in the center of the big production (a Potemkin Village it be.)  And past what I supposed were “Sea Org” security, or am I boffing my Scientology knowledge?

… and, looking about.  Hm.  Is this anything good for Yakima?

Sorting out the history of what one can claim for team history — the New Orleans Hornets have changed their name to the New Orleans Pelicans, jettisoning the team nickname they had when they were based in Charlotte.  This allows the new team based in Charlotte, the Charlotte Bobcats, to change their name to the Charlotte Hornets.  Which sets up the odd question: who owns the team history of the old Charlotte Hornets?

The answer is, apparently, New Orleans.  The fans in that city get to dote over the old performances by Glen Rice and the rest; Charlotte fans are stuck with their brief history.

This makes things a little odd for fans in Seattle, who had to scuttle all the memories of — like, losing to the Bulls in 6 in the NBA Finals (“Sweepless in Seattle!”) and Gary Payton carrying the team for a few years thereafter, and the Brent Barry era, and their one Title from the late 1970s.  All of that belongs to the team located in Oklahoma City — that city’s fans get to claim it.  It appeared for a while that fans of the Seattle Sonics could pick up on the history of the Sacramento Kings and claim all their history — “Hey!  Remember Vlad Divac!  What a player!” — but just when the fans in Seattle had a chance to implant this team’s history into their collective consciousness — the Kings are staying put, apparently.

Hard to be a Seattle sports fan.  The city’s NBA history has been wiped blank, and moved to Oklahoma — nothing happened in this city, and if a new team comes in, the history of basketball in the city will start over

Interestingly, if the Seattle Seahawks ever moved, it would be different.  The precedent has been set with the Cleveland Browns, whose franchise moved to Baltimore and then when a team came back into Cleveland, all the old Cleveland Brown history belongs to the new Cleveland Browns team and not the Baltimore Ravens.  So, Baltimore will just have to content themselves with their two Superbowls (and Trent Dilfer shouting “I’m going to Disneyland!” because of the pr nightmare Disney would’ve had in sending the game’s mvp there) — and when Cleveland’s team gets to claim that time John Elway marched 99 yards down the field on them.  Lucky them, I guess.

Today was apparently “Benghazi Day” on Fox News.  Undoubtedly on talk radio, excepting for the possibility that Limbaugh might be talking about himself and his current dealings with his syndicate for a few hours.

Looking over the conservative blogosphere and message board land, I am always struck on the chest thumping of this rather innocuous Hillary Clinton quote, taken askew out of context to shade into nefarious covering of the up.  When this happens, you suspect nothing but a broad stoke of searching for the gotchas.  An auto-pilot that will play out any quote and spit out something that looks like this “Impeach Obama for stock market declines” whether it fits the reality or not.

And here we get to an interesting “looking past Obama” fissure on it, which slides into the confluence of the Democrats sighing on the panel and the anti-Obama figures slap dashing their hand… it’s an accidental “point”/ “same point” I saw when reading over my opinion magazine blogs this day.  Observe.

Point:  “The meta message that they’re trying to get out there is that this is a failure in judgment that goes to character,” Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly, a senior Democrat on the Oversight and Foreign Affairs panels, told The Hill. “It didn’t work with Obama, so [they’re hoping that] maybe it’ll stick to Clinton.
“They’re trying to bring her numbers down. That’s what this is all about.”

Same Point.
My Twitter feed tells me that these hearings will spell the doom of the Obama administration. I’m going to make the wild prediction that it most certainly will not. It may spell doom for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s chances as president in 2016, but even that will depend on who her opposition would be.

Supposedly Clinton is unassailable right now — I saw a dailykos post which referenced her having the surest road to the White House since Eisenhower.  (“She’d win Kentucky, for Pete’s sake!“)  In a few years we’ll find out if this is all actually true — she’s swerving back to a partisan figure after one term of not being so.